Read the excerpt from act i, scene iii of romeo and juliet. nurse: faith, i can tell her age unto an hour. lady capulet: she’s not fourteen. nurse: i’ll lay fourteen of my teeth— and yet to my teen be it spoken i have but four— she is not fourteen. how long is it now 20 to lammas-tide? lady capulet: a fortnight and odd days. nurse: even or odd, of all days in the year, come lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. the nurse can be viewed as a comic figure in the excerpt because of her careless housekeeping. willingness to serve. roundabout answer. firm religious beliefs.